FALLOUT - It's Dangerous To Go Alone: Introduce Yourself

hello all,

i'm jean baptiste (make that jb or john or whatever), recently turned 23, student, have a BA in History and English, currently in a lol master in the science of management (whatever that is). I live in Paris and am currently doing a crappy internship.

My gaming history doesnt amount to much compared to those upthread. Started playing games when my parents got a mac back in 1995 or something. Played hours and hours of sim city. Longed for a game boy during all my childhood without ever having one. Loved the mario games. Soon after the mac we got a pc, all 166mhz of it. I remember playing wolfenstein 3D a lot, some Doom and Quake too, as well as Need for speed, Fifa 98, space invaders or other relatively unknown games I guess( Kalisto's Fury of the Furies; a Heart of Darkness game maybe?).

When I came back to France, I started playing Half Life. I never actually finished the single player mode (got stuck at one point where there is a hydra-like beast and kinda stopped there) but I played CS quite a lot. By quite a lot I mean I spent lots of weekends in front of the computer, at my house or at a friends if we set up a lan. I did not join any clan but that didnt stop me from playing a shitload. I actually ditched school on one or two occasions just to go play CS.

The other game I spent far too much time on is Diablo 2. I'd bought it the day it came out cause I had enjoyed the first one. Started out with a paladin and really didnt get into it. Two years later or some such, I saw my brother playing D2 online and that got me back into it. So I did too and that was the beginning of a year and a half of loads of Diablo. I levelled up countless chars (though none to lvl 99, my only regret). The weird thing was that after about 10 months I didnt really play anymore. I'd just log on, give items to friends who started playing and spend hours trading items. Which means that about 6 years after the fact I can still remember the trade value of a number of items.

Since I finished high school I havent played much. I bought a DS about 3 yrs back and have enjoyed myself quite a bit with it. I also really love watching other people play. I also just realised that I'm off to a very bad start since I wont be at home till sunday so wont really be able to play till then. The reason why I joined this is cause it sounds more fun to play a game and be able to speak about it with other people who are playing it at the same time.

I'm Will, and I'm 24. I work for some mostly-anonymous white label web 2.0 company nowadays, and play a bunch of games (Although less than I want, generally).

I started when I was really young, probably three or four years old, when my dad got an Atari 2600, Mario Bros, Ms. Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong. I was hooked, even though I'd learn long after that they were pretty awful ports. We also got an Atari ST dekstop computer, which had a few games on it-- most notably, Asteroids, Operation Neptune, Hostage, Bubble Ghost...

Much to my chagrin, I had nothing but an Atari until the mid 1990's, when I was spending all of my time reading magazines about N64 and Playstation. I was too young to work, though, and my parents couldn't afford one of those-- so, when my mom's boss got her kids an N64, she sold her kid's SNES to my mom, who gave it to me. Which was totally awesome. I'm glad I had an SNES and not an N64.

When I was 12 or 13, I took a flyer-delivering job and bought a PS1. I moved and no longer had a job, and wouldn't have another for ages, so I mostly rented and borrowed games for that system. That was '98. In '03 or '04 I had a new job and bought a PS2. I now have a 360 as well.

My best memories of gaming are going to my friend's house and playing his NES. We struggled through SMB3, Battletoads, Rockin' Kats... my other big memories were playing through a few RPGs by myself on the SNES and PS1 (Chrono Trigger and early FFVII, namely).

Nowadays I play 360, and a lot of Football Manager. I love games that are really "cult"y. They intrigue me, even if I'm on the outside (for example I'm really interested in playing Fire Pro, even though I don't like wrestling). In my 360 now: NHL 09.

john do u even have a passport tho

Hello, I'm Michael. I work as an editor for an art school in San Francisco, and live in Oakland. I used to work in a bunch of record stores, but now I can afford to buy records. I have left the country once in my entire life -- the year I studied abroad in college. I can't find my passport. (Well, okay, I went to Tijuana a few times when I lived in San Diego...)

When I was a little kid my dad randomly bought me a second-gen video game console at an auction. It might have been a Coleco Adam, or a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, or maybe something else. I'm not sure. What I remember for sure was that I had Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom and was obsessed with it for awhile. Other than that, there was the arcade. I didn't have an Atari or know anyone who had one. In kindergarten or first grade I met a kid who had a ColecoVision, and I desperately wished I could be friends with him so I could play Q*Bert. But we were not that tight.

Anyway, a few years later my dad had a good poker night, so he bought me the "Intendo" that I'd been wanting. He also got me some games, seemingly at random. I can't even remember what they were. No one had ever heard of them. I played them to death. Anyway, my I had my Nintendo in the garage and also had a pool table and a basketball hoop and a pool, so it was kind of a big deal. Mostly we just played Nintendo though.

Later I got a SNES. One of my neighbors had a Genesis, and he let us come over to play Mortal Kombat but his brother was a dick. Another friend claimed to have a Neo Geo but he'd never let us see it.

This was around the time I stopped going to the arcade, and also around when I got my first home computer. I used it to set up a BBS, and I was a SysOp at 13, with a lot of awesome BBS games like TradeWars and Legend of the Red Dragon and shit like that. This was also when I first started playing shit like Wolfenstein and Doom.

In high school I discovered punk rock, literature, and girls, and basically didn't play video games at all after that except Tetris and Minesweeper until after college, Then I moved in with a guy who had a PS2, and later I got my own PS2, and later I got a 360, and now I have a PS3, and we are up to date. I have a PC but it is not suitable for video gaming. I like Flash games. The end.

Oh hey, this isn't in ILG!

heh

i have a passport! why?

i totally missed this thread.

i miss this board.
sigh

i still miss this board